hope
/həʊp/ · verb
Meaning
- To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.
- To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.
- To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in.
- To wish.
- The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
- The actual thing wished for.
- A person or thing that is a source of hope.
- The virtuous desire for future good.
- A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a comb.
- A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
- A small bay; an inlet; a haven.
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